Barbara Kay
Award-winning columnist, @nationalpost & @fullcomment. Author of A Three-Day Event - available at Amazon.ca. Radio & TV pundit. Proud mother and grandmother.
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Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283
The internet didn’t invent the angry mob.
Barbara Kay
Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283
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The uprising in Iran: 'These people have nothing to lose. They’re fearless now.'
Terry Glavin: The protests sweeping across Iran are different than those before it, says the human rights activist Masih Alinejad. This time, the government is scared.
Man jailed after repeatedly calling 999 and burping down the phone
The defendant was distinguishable as he was "audibly belching down the phone line"
Why I’m not applying for promotion
Phill Cassey outlines one proactive step to support diversity in his workplace.
Educational Earthquake: ‘Disappearing’ the Great Writers From Schools
The “disappearing” of dead white European male writers, however magnificent their achievements, may well be normalized across Canada before long.
Barbara Kay
My latest for @pochTimes: Educational Earthquake: ‘Disappearing’ the Great Writers From Schools theepochtimes.com/educational-ea… via @epochtimes
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Cultural Climate Change | Jonathan Sacks
‘The West had three master narratives: Westernisation, secularisation and accommodation. But today each one of them is breaking down’…
Barbara Kay
Half the world is getting less religious, half more religious. The tension between them is growing/. That is cultural climate change, the biggest thing to happen in the West since the great wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Libertarian Group Demands NASA Remove False '97 Percent Consensus' Global Warming Claim
According to a CEI complaint filed Tuesday, NASA must retract the false 97 percent global warming claim, based on a fatally misleading 2013 study.
Anyone should be allowed to 'identify' as black, says uni leaders
Universities and Colleges Union has set out its stance in a report on the ongoing row about whether men should be able to self-identify as women. It insisted people can choose their own race.
Barbara Kay
President Obama could have identified as white, since he was half white, could he not? Anyone should be allowed to 'identify' as black, says uni leaders mol.im/a/7693927 via @MailOnline
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Ice Doesn't Lie - NASA Climate Scientists Do
In this video I compare NASA's bogus claims about ice and their fake temperature graphs vs. the actual historical record of ice over the past 200 years.
Barbara Kay
Glacier melting keeping you up at night? Don't take a sleeping pill, just watch this: youtu.be/spyJhgVbvVY via @YouTube
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Gates Derangement Syndrome
Is it immoral to be a billionaire? That was the motion before the Oxford Union in a debate held last September, emphatically proposed by the journalist Anand Giridharadas. Billionaires, Giridharadas argued: …find clever new ways to pay people as...
Jonathan Kay: He’s an acquired taste, but this man made puritan Toronto less boring
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when men and women couldn’t drink in the same Toronto bar unless they entered through different doors and stayed on opposite sides of an interior wall
Barbara Kay
I don't know where my son @jonkay picked up the habit of turning the other cheek to his enemies - certainly not in our home - but enjoyed this review anyway. nationalpost.com/wcm/00d49148-7… via @nationalpost
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Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history
As the marijuana legalizers seek to extend their many triumphs, the comparison they dread most is the one with Big Tobacco
Beware the creepy male feminist
There's a certain sort of man who likes to over-compensate for women
Journalists Against Free Speech
Once unswerving defenders of the First Amendment, members of the press increasingly support restricting expression.
Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head at McGill University
There is a cancer on our campuses and the McGill Daily is one big reason why it is metastasizing.
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Barbara Kay
There is a cancer on our campuses and the McGill Daily is one big reason why it is metastasizing.
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4 Feminist Lies That Are Making Women Miserable
The following article was originally published at The Federalist. Twenty years ago, I wrote my first book about why women can’t “have it all,” or at least all at once, despite what the culture tells them. (Hint: It’s because no one, male or female,...
Free speech in Canada: It was bad five years ago. Do you think it’s gotten better since?
Barbara Kay examines ‘cancel culture’ on Canadian campuses as part of the National Post’s ‘Free speech in Canada’ series
Barbara Kay
Free speech in Canada: It was bad five years ago. Do you think it's gotten better since? nationalpost.com/wcm/156a4a4f-1… via @nationalpost
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Forget Wexit – How About a Bloc Québécois for the West?
Another federal election, another devastating outcome for the West. This time around, however, Western Canadians aren’t feeling much like putting up with being shut out. ‘Wexit’ is one response to the perpetual hammer-lock central Canada has on...